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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAlly Financial and USGA strike deal as U.S. Women's Open purse reaches new recordAlly Financial's Stephanie Marciano, Lilia Vu, the World's No.1 golfer, and Mike Whan, U.S. Golf Association CEO, join 'Power Lunch' to discuss the new partnership between the USGA and Ally Financial.
Persons: Ally Financial's Stephanie Marciano, Lilia Vu, Mike Whan Organizations: Financial, USGA, . Golf Association, Ally
Wie West has lived much of her life in the public eye. She turned professional a year later, just shy of her 16th birthday, and won her only major – the US Women’s Open – in 2014. Michelle Wie West won the US Women's Open in 2014. This too could be Sorenstam’s final major – she has said this would be her last US Women’s Open. “I thought my last [U.S. Women’s Open] would be in 2008,” she said, per the LPGA.
Persons: Michelle Wie West, , Makenna, Mike Whan, Wie West, Ezra Shaw, ” Wie, “ It’s, Annika Sorenstam, Darron Cummings, Swede, Will, , it’s, We’ve, ” America’s Bailey Tardy Organizations: CNN, US, Kraft Nabisco, Sony, USGA, Getty, Women’s Locations: Pebble, Wie
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailUSGA CEO Mike Whan: I was 'surprised’ by PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger announcementUnited States Golf Association CEO Mike Whan joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss last week's PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger announcement and the controversy surrounding it.
Persons: Mike Whan, Organizations: PGA, States Golf
"I'm not going to avoid the elephant in the room," Whan told reporters at the Los Angeles Country Club on Wednesday. But it turns out last Tuesday was the longest day in golf," he said, referring to the day the news of the merger broke. Whan said he then remembered having similar concerns ahead of last year's U.S. Open in Boston, which came on the heels of LIV's first event. "I am pretty sure when we recap 2023 we're going to be talking about what happened on the golf course and not what happened off the golf course," Whan said. Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia OstermanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Mike Whan, LIV, shockwaves, I'm, Whan, gosh, LIV's, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Rory Carroll, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: PGA, U.S, United States Golf, Los Angeles Country Club, Thomson Locations: ANGELES, Saudi Arabia, Saudi, Boston, Los Angeles
is also concerned about the millions of golfers who are not professionals and neither he nor Perpall indicated plans for a wholesale surrender. The announcement that Monahan had stepped back followed seven days of turmoil in professional golf. Monahan, who helped to negotiate the deal, was criticized as a cash-hungry hypocrite, but he has retained at least some crucial allies inside the tour. “Jay is a human being,” Webb Simpson, the 2012 U.S. Open winner and a member of the tour’s board, said in an interview on Wednesday. “Golf is a game, and oftentimes, we make golf into something so much bigger than it is and we dehumanize people.” Perhaps, he said, Tuesday’s announcement would give “people a little perspective.”
Persons: Mike Whan, , Perpall, ” Whan, , Jay Monahan, Ron Price, Tyler Dennis, Monahan, “ Jay, ” Webb Simpson, Organizations: PGA Tour, U.S, LIV Golf Locations: Saudi
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